Stove



(No Model.)

A. M. SANDERS.

STOVE.

Patented Nov. 20, 1888.

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N. FLTERs, Pholrrulhngraphcr. Washington. n.c.

NITED STATES Pres.

PATENT SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,269, dated November 20,1888.

Application filed June 14, 1888. Serial No. 277,040. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED M. SANDERS, a citizen of the United States, residingat Morristown, in the county of Hamblen and State of Tennessee, have invented new and useful Improvements in Stoves, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to that class of cooking apparatus commonly known as box-stoves, and the purpose thereof is to provide a simple and inexpensive construction and combination of parts, whereby the heat from the fire-box shall be conveyed in substantially-equal volumes over the top, beneath the bottom, and over the vertical walls of the oveuspace.

It is also my purpose to provide a boxstove having a fire-box which shall be external to and detachable from the body of the stove, the base of the box being on a level with the base of the stove-body, whereby the former may be removed and renewed at any time without altering or mutilating the latter.

The invention consists in the several novel features of construction and new combinations of parts, hereinafter fully set forth, and then definitely pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section from front to rear illustrating my invention. Fig. 2 is afrontelevation of the parts shown in Fig. 1.

In the drawings, the reference -numeral 1 denotes the body of the stove, which may be of any ordinary size, form, and construction, containing an oven-space, 2, surrounded by draft-passagesiB, which communicate with the flue-opening 4t.

The numeral 5 denotes the fire-box, which, as shown, is a rectangular structure, though any other form may be adopted. A suitable grate, 6, is arranged in the fire-box, which is provided with an ash-pan, 7, beneath said grate. A door, 8, at one end gives access to the interior, and the front wall, 9, may be mounted upon a hinge at one end and serve as a door when required.

Upon the end walls, 10, of the fire-box are mounted lugs 12, which project slightly toward the rear. These lugs are preferably an ranged at or near to the top of the fire-box,

and when the latter is in proper position relative to the stovebody they lie inside and against the side walls, 13, of the stove-body, the lower portion of the front wall thereof being cut away from the bottom to a point in or nearly in the plane ofthe top of the firebox, the rearward edge thereof being turned upward to form a flange, 14, which hooks or lies under a laterally-projecting hood, 15, formed upon the lower edge of the-front wall of the stove. A rearwardly-projecting flange, 16, projects from the bottom of the fire-box and overlies or rests upon the floor or lower wall of the stove-body, one or more lugs, 17, being mounted upon said flange and fastened to the lower wall by rivets 18. A similar fastening unites thelugs 12 to the side walls.

At the rear of the fire-box is arranged a fireplate, 19, having a sufficient height to pro tect the draft-space beneath the oven from ashes and coals. A damper or check-draft, 26, is mounted upon the front of the fire-box at the top or bottom, or in both places, and dampers 21 and 22 are placed in the draftspaces of the stove-body in such manner as to permit the entire draft to be thrown above or beneath the oven or to be equally divided upon all sides thereof.

By this invention I secure a direct draft from the fire and provide an equal distribution of heat upon all sides of the oven-space. The capacity of the latter is increased, it is heated with much greater rapidity, and with materially less expenditure of fuel. More over, by constructing the fire-box separately and uniting it with the stove-body in the man ner shown it may be renewed at any time without dillieulty.

The stove will be provided with all the usual modern improvements, not specifically shown in the drawings.

A door, 26, may be arranged in the upper front of the lire-box for the admission of coal, and the check-draft 26 may be mounted on said door.

lVhat I claim is The combination, with a stove-body having an oven-chamber therein surrounded by flues and a front wall provided with a laterallyprojecting hood, 15, of a detachable fire-box,

5, having a fire-space, a fire-grate, 6, and ashchamber, substantially as shown and depan 7 below the grate, a top flange, 14, side scribed. O lugs, 12, bottom flange,1(i, respectively bolted In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature in to the hood, side walls,and bottom wall of the presence of two witnesses.

stove-body, and a fire-plate, 19, rising Verti- ALFRED M. SANDERS. eally from the bottom of the detachable fire- \Vitnesses:

box above the level of the bottom wall of the WM. S. DIOKSON,

stove-body and above the flue under the oven- J. 0. RICE. 

